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boustrophedon and conculture of Re: yet another romance

From:Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 5, 2000, 21:49
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:49:50 -0600
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You forgot one important factor, Steg --

Somebody influential came up with a really unusual, unprecedented,
and creative (if "cute") idea and got other people to adopt it.
That's the only way I can think of that that would come about. :)

It's probably how the runic alphabet was created (IMHO)...


(BTW, would you believe I have a friend IRL who is also nicknamed
"Steg"?  Of course, his last name is "Stegenga"...)

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Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:58:04 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes: > > > > Ju:dajca is commonly written in boustrophedon style, with > > alternating > > > > lines of latin (left-to-right) and hebrew (right-to-left) > > scripts. > > > Didn't notice this the first time. Interesting. They use BOTH > > Latin > > and Hebrew alphabets? How would such a situation develop? > . > > Fractured society with widely varying ideologies and agendas. > Let me think of some factions.... >